Craig Barratt, the company’s senior vice president in charge “Access and Energy,” now appears alongside long-time top managers like Sundar Pichai, Susan Wojcicki, and Sridhar Ramaswamy.

Previously Barratt had been all but invisible outside Google. The change suggests his work ranks among Google’s most important projects, including Android, Ads and YouTube, whose leaders are also featured on the management team page.

Barratt brought technical know-how and management chops when he joined Google as one of many vice presidents last year, having been chief executive of Atheros Communications, the Wi-Fi chip maker that in 2011 was scooped up for $3.1 billion by Qualcomm. He was promoted to senior vice president at Google in May, according to his LinkedIn profile.

“What Milo [Medin] and Craig are doing at Google is very serious, not an experiment to spur [cable] industry innovation,” said Rajeev Chand, head of research at investment bank Rutberg & Co. Medin heads up Google Fiber.

Google’s ambitions to provide widespread Internet access are becoming more evident as the company’s investments in that area multiply. Besides Google Fiber, which hopes to bring speedy broadband to a dozen metro areas, Google is investing in satellites and drones to beam access from the atmosphere.

Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe. The initiative is led by Greg Wyler, founder of satellite-communications startup O3b Networks Ltd., who recently joined Google, and who reports to Barratt, according to a person familiar with the project.

Barratt is also in charge of some of Google’s clean-energy investments, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company has invested or committed to invest around $1.5 billion in various wind and solar power projects, according to a web page listing those investments. It’s not clear which investments Barratt is responsible for.

As of earlier this year, each of the executives featured at the bottom of Google’s management team page were also members of “L team,” the top advisers to Google Chief Executive Larry Page and the company’s most exclusive club. It isn’t clear whether Barratt, or another new addition to the management team page, Senior Vice President of Search Amit Singhal, is now a member of “L Team.”